[libvirt] [PATCH v2] [TCK] nwfilter: probe for inverted ctdir

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 02:07:31PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/16/2013 10:02 AM, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > Linux netfilter at some point inverted the meaning of the '--ctdir reply'
> > and newer netfilter implementations now expect '--ctdir original'
> > instead and vice-versa.
> > We probe for this netfilter change via an IMCP message over loopback and 3
> > filtering rules applied to INPUT. If the sent byte arrives, the newer
> > netfilter implementation has been detected and we convert the strings
> > in the iptables output to now match that inversion implemented by libvirt.
> > 
> > The downside of this is that probing of libvirt and this test tool are
> > independent and this test tool will only work correctly for all cases
> > if used with libvirt probing for 'ctdir inversion' as well.
> 
> Such is life - running newer TCK against older libvirt will thus
> potentially expose the bugs in that older libvirt, unless it is also on
> the older kernel.

That is actually a good thing, because it demonstrates to the person
running the test suite that their version of libvirt has a bug.

Daniel
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